Riseupandnurse

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  1. Advice re: nightshift

    Riseupandnurse replied to Jules A's topic in General Nursing

    I found it very helpful to take a tylenol PM before trying to sleep after/before a night shift. Another thing that helped was to try to schedule waking up to no sooner than two hours before the start...

  2. Floating to other units...

    Riseupandnurse replied to owensmommy's topic in General Nursing

    Wow--great reward for not calling in sick!! No-one likes to float, it's the lack of cross-training that kills you. A Rehab nurse in intensive care? A cardiac nurses in nICU? Does that make sense...

  3. New admits at shift change

    Riseupandnurse replied to megananne7's topic in General Nursing

    We are expected to have a bed ready for ER within 15 minutes of them calling. If the room is dirty we just have to get a stat clean. But it's not just a matter of tucking a new patient in, or doing...

  4. Need advice: quit or stay?

    Riseupandnurse replied to hollyberry678's topic in General Nursing

    This is a problem all over and part of the lack of respect for nursing that is so rapidly overrunning our society. What the NAs don't understand is that they are ASSISTANTS and the RN is responsible...

  5. Almost a Year In -- Desperately need advice/encouragement (LONG)

    Riseupandnurse replied to WWRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, I would try the 8 hour shifts. I never felt normal when I worked the Ps. It was a wasted year and a half. Nothing goes right when you're chronically sleep

  6. A bit scared of orthopedics now.

    Riseupandnurse replied to WindyhillBSN's topic in Orthopedic

    Most of the ortho nurses learned early on to protect their backs, but now the older ones are having major problems with their KNEES, having lifted with their legs all these years to protect the

  7. JCAHO requirement? hourly rounds and written report at change of shift?

    Riseupandnurse replied to blackberry's topic in General Nursing

    We quit taped report as it was taking too much time and moved to SBAR. SBAR included written minisheets but nobody was keeping them up to date and we kept getting confused about how old a sheet was....

  8. Almost a Year In -- Desperately need advice/encouragement (LONG)

    Riseupandnurse replied to WWRN's topic in General Nursing

    I feel for you!! I didn;t even START to come out of those feelings a little until I had two years of experience, and I'm not in critical care. And after 18 years I'm not at all over them by any...

  9. Visitors are OUT OF CONTROL!!!

    Riseupandnurse replied to paperdreams's topic in General Nursing

    Could we start with asking a patient on admission, in private, if they are A/O, if they would like to limit the number visiting them at one time? We could put a sign on the door and enforce limits as...

  10. Safe Staffing Saves Lives - ANA has started a campaign for us

    Riseupandnurse replied to BrokenRNheart's topic in General Nursing

    This sounded so good from the ANA but I can see why it is probably just the same old same old. The problem with the ANA is that it's so expensive ($300 a year) that only advanced practice bothers to...

  11. Does this happen to you?

    Riseupandnurse replied to David Offenbaker's topic in General Nursing

    If PT is just teaching transfers, well yes, it's appropriate to leave the patients in a chair for awhile. But if they've worked them out with ambulation, the patients need to be placed back in bed to...

  12. New admits at shift change

    Riseupandnurse replied to megananne7's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think patients should have to wait in ER either, no matter if it's change of shift or not. What I don't understand at all is that fully 90% of our ER admits come to the floor at shift change....

  13. Dissertation/Thesis

    Riseupandnurse replied to daisy_222's topic in General Nursing

    I would like to see some research on whether patients would actually prefer visiting hours to the free-for-all that goes on in hospitals today. Ooops---you can tell I am biased! But we all act like...

  14. Need HESI Advice

    Riseupandnurse replied to liney83's topic in General Nursing

    To pass the HESI: Make sure you know your labs and math calculations. When you see a question, cover up the answers and don't look at them until you have tried to answer the question, "What's wrong...

  15. inappropriate comment made by RN in front of patient

    Riseupandnurse replied to uscstu4lfe's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with Wooh; I thnk you should start with the nurse in question. If that doesn't seem to have any effect, then go to the manager. But hard as it is to reason and "correct" someone on a...

  16. Am I suited for this?

    Riseupandnurse replied to Math-me-no-likey!'s topic in General Nursing

    Speaking as an x-ray tech who went into nursing, I don't think you should be so frightened by the math. Nursing math is very basic and the truth is that in modern hospitals you don't have to figure...

  17. inappropriate comment made by RN in front of patient

    Riseupandnurse replied to uscstu4lfe's topic in General Nursing

    Oh,ugh! I recognized the thougths I have as the nurse who gets "stuck" with the new admit. I am always disgusted with myself by these thoughts, and would never verbalize them in front of a patient....

  18. "Women Are Catty"

    Riseupandnurse replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    I just finished watching the last "Survivor" show (I had it taped). The winner was very catty, manipulative, a shameful flirt, and the ringleader of schemes that blind-sided the stronger competitors....

  19. Visitors are OUT OF CONTROL!!!

    Riseupandnurse replied to paperdreams's topic in General Nursing

    We always say we believe in evidence-based practice. Has anybody ever seen credible research which indicates that people really do better with unlimited visiting hours or unlimited number of visitors...

  20. Its pointless to call the doc. Do you have faith in the docs where you work?

    Riseupandnurse replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    Do you not have hospitalists? It is 100% better since we got them. They are excellent, excellent, doctors, without exception and will come quickly and do what is needed. I feel sorry for them...

  21. Is this Legal?

    Riseupandnurse replied to widi96's topic in General Nursing

    I had a huge draining boil under my arm one New Year's Day. I went to the hospital's ER and had it drained and an IVPB, then I called the supervisor from the ER I couldn't work evenings due to...

  22. I was slapped by a doctor!

    Riseupandnurse replied to cluelessRN81's topic in General Nursing

    I agree that the OP shouldn't mention the raise to others. I agree she is entitled to the money and shouldn't feel pressured to "save the world" by going after this doctor in the legal system. It is...

  23. I was slapped by a doctor!

    Riseupandnurse replied to cluelessRN81's topic in General Nursing

    Uh oh, wait a minute!! I never did see the point of the hospital giving you a raise, but DOUBLED your salary??? Turn it down!! You are being set up, and the axe will fall on you when you least...

  24. Unit Secretary Abuse

    Riseupandnurse replied to PowderedToast's topic in General Nursing

    This is just terrible. What are nurses supposed to do---sometimes you feel as if these constant demands will just drive you absolutely insane. Besides the aggravation, I am very much afraid for the...

  25. Why are nurses discriminated

    Riseupandnurse replied to macgyver16's topic in General Nursing

    What I seem to get into "trouble" about is not anticipating MD needs and not putting things together when they appear on the floor. I don't know when the docs are coming and am constantly trying to...